Abstract :
Children’s literature is a field which has been discussed under various titles such as its boundaries, quality, necessity, and the age group it addresses to. Also, it is a filed whose characteristics has been tried to be determined. Even though the importance of children’s literature is not denied today, it is difficult to express that the number of studies carried out in this field has increased in comparison to this general view. In this study, it was aimed at assessing the post-graduate theses written on children’s literature between 1981 and 2010 by classifying these theses according to their types, the period in which they were written and their subjects. In the literature review carried out for the study, the database of the National Thesis Center of the Council of Higher Education of Turkey was used to a large extent. However, internet search engines and written sources which were prepared in the previous years were also used other than this database. In the research process, thesis review was especially focused on the concept of “children’s literature”. The codes related to the theses were conducted by the researcher in computer environment. With a view to provide coding reliability, the codes were examined once again by two domain experts. In the process of coding post-graduate theses written on children’s literature, each thesis was coded only for once. However, in subject assessment, the theses which were related to more than one title were assessed and coded separately for each sub-title they were related to.
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Children’s literature , post , graduate theses , meta , analysis.
